Elita Zaffuto

Elita Zaffuto was an Italian-American gangster affiliated with the Maranzano crime family of the American Mafia.

Biography
Elita Zaffuto was born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and he came to the United States during the 1920s alongside the American Mafia boss Salvatore Maranzano. Zaffuto was an old-fashioned made man in the Maranzano crime family, and he was the first man to cut his palm open and shake Lucky Luciano's hand as a sign of respect and initiation in 1931, following Luciano's murder of Joe Masseria.